Peter Barnes | Judges 6
SERMON NOTES
GIDEON: WEAKNESSES AND STRENGTHS
(Judges 6:25-40)
– ‘Each victory will help you some other to win’ – but it is not mechanical. This is in the ‘rescue’ stage of the cycle.
1. Obedience despite weakness.
– 6:25-27; obedience is compulsory, but heroism looks …
Peter Barnes | Isaiah 43:11; 45:22 …
Tristan Merkel | Luke 9 …
Peter Barnes | Ezekiel 4:1-5:4
SERMON NOTES
SERMON ILLUSTRATIONS OF JUDGMENT
Ezekiel 4:1-5:4; 2 Kings 25:1-21
– see Matt.22:17-21 and Acts 21:10-11 for visual aids
1. Jerusalem will be besieged.
– 4:1-3 by God! (5:8, 11)
– look at Ezekiel 8 and we see why
2. Ezekiel bears the sin …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
December 2009
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
It is customary, even compulsory, in many circles these days to lampoon the belief that Jesus was born of a virgin. There is nothing new in this. In the second century, both the Jew, Trypho, and …
Peter Barnes | Judges 6
SERMON NOTES
THE CALLING OF GIDEON
(Judges 6:1-24)
– Gideon is mentioned in Heb.11:32
1. Rebellion and Repression.
– 6:1, then 1b-6; the repression is so bad that the camels of the Midianites are compared to locusts
– Gideon cannot thresh wheat out in the …
Peter Barnes | Ezekiel 3:16-27
SERMON NOTES
EZEKIEL AS WATCHMAN
Ezekiel 3:16-27; Acts 20:17-38
1. We are responsible to speak God’s Word.
– 3:16-17 – either Ezekiel is pondering these things or there is empathy with his people, as in Job 2:13
– watchman as in Jer.6:16-17
– responsibility to …
Peter Barnes | Judges 4-5
SERMON NOTES
THE DEADLY FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
(Judges 4-5; part 2)
1. Rescue takes place despite division within Israel.
– Ephraim, Benjamin, Zebulun, and Issachar join in, with Naphtali (5:14-15a, 18) but Reuben, Gad, Dan, and Asher dither (5:15b-17)
– Meroz (a town in …
Peter Barnes | Ezekiel 2:9-3:15
SERMON NOTES
A MAN OF GOD’S WORD
Ezekiel 2:8-3:15; Jeremiah 15:10-21
– Calvin says that Ezekiel is more verbose than Isaiah or Jeremiah!
1. We must digest the whole Word of God.
– 2:8-3:3; this sustained Jeremiah (Jer.15:16; 20:9)
– there is sweetness (3:3) and …
Peter Barnes | Judges 4-5
SERMON NOTES
THE DEADLY FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
(Judges 4-5; part 1)
– Barak is mentioned in Hebrews 11:32.
1. Rebellion.
– 4:1; character is what we are when no one is looking.
2. Repression.
– 4:2-3; Jabin was king in Hazor in the north …
